Re: lynx-dev Re: 8-bit chars in URL

[Thomas Dickey]

On Fri, May 23, 2003 at 02:51:38PM -0700, Ilya Zakharevich wrote:
> On Fri, May 23, 2003 at 07:12:55AM -0700, Ilya Zakharevich wrote:
> > > The link looks like this:
> > > 
> > >   a href="index.php?param=/mp3 <D3><CB><C1><DA><CB><C9>"
> > > 
> > > [8-bit chars as shown by less].  When one folows this link, lynx requests
> > > 
> > >   index.php?param=/mp3%D1%81%D0%BA%D0%B0%D0%B7%D0%BA%D0%B8
> > > 
> > > which is hardly an acceptable translation...
> > 
> > And the server expects us to send
> > 
> >   index.php?param=/mp3%20%D3%CB%C1%DA%CB%C9
> > 
> > [Just change <D3> byte to %D3 etc.]
> 
> Following what Leonid wrote: this server allows 8-bit chars unencoded,
> but requires %20 for space.  So the safest bet is to leave high-bit
> chars as they are (but this may be much harder - since the URL is
> shown in the display charset in the echo area etc).

the nice thing about standards is that we don't have to make special cases.

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